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Italian Language Roundtable Series:

"Many Possibilities to Really Change"

Dates: November 27, December 18 2018; January 22, February 19, March 19 2019 Time: 19:00-21:00 Central European Standard Time (Italy)
1:00-3:00 PM Eastern Standard Time (US) except 2:00-4:00 PM on March 19, 2019

The TIFI Membership Committee is pleased to announce this new series of Focusing Roundtables designed especially by and for Italian speaking members of the Institute. This series will afford members a valuable opportunity to engage in casual peer-to-peer conversation with other Italian speaking members who share Focusing-related interests. We hope it will encourage others to develop additional Italian Language Roundtables in the future.

Each of the five Roundtables is a unique program so you can sign up for one or more Roundtables. If your plans change, you can come back and register for more or indicate you are no longer planning to attend a program for which you previously registered.

Each Roundtable will last two hours. Immediately following each Roundtable the online meeting space will be kept open for an additional 30 minutes to allow interested participants to discuss ways of following on from the Roundtable. This post-Roundtable opportunity is optional and self-organizing. We hope that those of you who might be interested in hosting future Italian Roundtables will stay to explore possibilities!

Roundtable #1: "When There Is No Felt Sense"

When it seems that our body does not talk back, we still can trust that actually we are receiving a "signal" related to our uniqueness that wants different ways and timings compared to the habitual ones.

Which experiences can we share on this and what are they related to? Is it a particular issue, or is it something that we usually consider difficult? Or, is it about the discovery of a background feeling ... always in a hurry, always impatient ... like a "wallpaper" we do not pay attention to anymore?

How do we live this kind of situations?

How do we access the following step? We ourselves, with a partner, student, client?

As anybody else children can find themselves having to face obstacles. Sometimes real physical "walls", due to congenital or acquired diseases, neurological ones or of other kind. This conditions can slow down, stop or hamper an ongoing process and cause frustration and withdrawal.Skin is the body's most extended organ and touch is the first sense that forms in uterus.

The French obstetrician and gynecologist Frederick Leboyer (1918 - 2017) once wrote: "Being touched and caressed, being massaged, is food for the infant; food as necessary as minerals, vitamins, and proteins. Deprived of this food, the name of which is love, Babies would rather die. And often they do."

Do you think it is possible to support and encourage "carrying forward" through a sensitive and special con-tact? Is it possible that the child/person may widen/modify the edge of her implicit physiological development? And if so, how does it occur? What are your experiences?

A meeting to honor wonder...

Roundtable #3: "The Process In Our Hands"

As adults we learn thanks to Focusing that the process is our own. It can be different each time, but it still belongs to us and only we are responsible for it. The process happens listening to our body, often in its central parts, but this time we invite you to an experience centered in our hands.

Hands touch and receive touch. They are loaded with sensations and carry energy.. following Ermete Trismegistos law: "As above - so below, as below – so above. As inside – so outside, as outside – so inside. As in the big – so in the small."

We invite you to experiment how we may contact our issue starting from a small part (our hands).

After the experience we can share sensations, opinions related to this integration proposal.

Roundtable #4: "From Non-Verbal, To Word, To Language"

Hosted by Agostino Manni

Tuesday, February 19, 2019 19:00-21:00 Central European Time (Italy)1:00-3:00 PM Eastern Standard Time (US)Convert to your time zone

From witnesses and from observations on several dozen intervention (individual, couples, group) the presentation of direct experiences of the taken course and experienced by people who accept Focusing as a possibility to overcome the myth of belonging (to groups, in relationships, to...)

Roundtable #5: "Focusing when we feel blocked”

Hosted by Lorenzo Salvi

Tuesday, March 19, 2019 19:00-21:00 Central European Time (Italy)2:00-4:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time (US)Convert to your time zone

From witnesses and from observations on several dozen intervention (individual, couples, group) the presentation of direct experiences of the taken course and experienced by people who accept Focusing as a possibility to overcome the myth of belonging (to groups, in relationships, to...)

CONNECTION>CONVERSATION>COMMUNITY

What to expect from Focusing Roundtables: Each Focusing Roundtable is designed to promote informal peer-to-peer conversation. Rather than acting as expert presenters, the Hosts will serve as conversation moderators to encourage sharing and exploration of the topics from the participants’ own perspectives. All participants’ sharings are welcome and valuable, no matter what level of experience or knowledge you have on the topic. To preserve the nature of informal conversation, the program will be offered live only and no recordings will be available. Registration is limited and on a first-come, first served basis. Participants are encouraged to create follow up opportunities for connection among themselves after the Roundtable.

About your hosts:

Maria Teresa Belgenio, pedagogist, psychologist psychotherapist in Naples for children, adolescents, couples and families. She was trained in TAE in 2011, she is Certified Focusing Trainer since 2012. She discovered in the practice and in the philosophy of focusing the principles that found and guide her way of respecting the rhythm of life and the pace of development of people, in doing her activity as a psychologist and in leading seminars and workshops on relational resources and free listening to spread first person process. Visit mariateresa@belgenio.it or www.filosofiadellimplicito.it.

Olga Pasquini, Argentinian, she lives in Italy and has been practicing focusing since 12 years. She finds the practice of focusing an aid for her life and a good integration with the bodywork. She is trainer since 2008 and since 2016 working as a coordinator she attends the training of new trainers and arranges meetings for the purpose of integrating Focusing with the bodywork. Visit www.focusing.it.

Lorenzo Salvi, Counselor and mediator in Rome (Italy). I learnt Focusing and Nonviolent Communication (NVC) thanks to several teachers in different countries. I’m practicing Focusing since more than 10 years and I use it also for my activity as a counselor. I do not teach but rather help people to learn. Contact satyen@virgilio.it.

GOING FORWARD WITH MORE ITALIAN FOCUSING ROUNDTABLES:

Our hope in hosting this series of five roundtables is to create a space that will be sustained in the future in a self-organized manner by the Italian Focusing community. Therefore, after this series, we will ask for volunteers to organize future Italian roundtables.

Registration Closes: November 20, 2018 or when the class is full, whichever is sooner.

Zoom: This conversation will take place on an online video conference service called Zoom. Please attend by computer so that we can have your video presence as well as your audio.

Price: The host and co-hosts are volunteering their time in order that this program may be brought to members of TIFI at no charge.

PLEASE NOTE: When you register here, you will be asked to confirm that you are a member. If you are not a member, you may click on the option to receive information about how to become a member. After membership is confirmed and you have registered here, watch for an email containing a link to take you to the conference room at the start time. You will simply click on the link or paste it into your browser to enter the conference.